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The ex-president and 2024 candidate appeared in Manhattan court on Tuesday in the “Stormy Daniels” case, suspected of having led a criminal scheme to save his campaign in 2016. But the accusation raises criticism and reservations.
The last time an American head of state was stopped by the police was Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant, who was pulled over for speeding in his horse and buggy through the streets of Washington, in 1872. A century and a half later, a convoy of eleven vehicles, scrutinized in its slightest tremors by a swarm of helicopter cameras, drove Donald Trump through New York on Tuesday, until his surrender to the forces of the order in Lower Manhattan Criminal Court – in an indictment that knows no precedent of any kind.
Mute and looking more gloomy than ever, the ex-president was escorted by the secret services through the various stages of a shortened and lightened custody procedure, due to his stature as an extraordinary litigant. – no handcuffs or mugshot for Trump this time, at most a few stinging images, captured in a hallway, of a brutal return to gravity. He was then presented in the courtroom to Judge Juan Merchan and pleaded not guilty to the 34 charges set against him. All for ‘falsification of regi
